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Headline inflation in the country stood at 8.15 percent in July 2022.
According to the INEGI, the prices of school supplies register the highest increase since the second half of March 1997.
The notebooks and folders, until the month of July had an annual inflation of 13.97 percent.
Every year Mexican mothers and fathers have to spend a little more on the purchase of school supplies. This year, facing the next school year, does not seem to be different, because according to several estimates, the inflation that is registered in the country has caused the supply list to shoot up three times more than previous years..
Currently, there seems to be no possible brake to stop the increase in prices in Mexico, where general inflation in the country stood at 8.15 percent in July 2022, which places it as the highest rate in the last 22 years, when in July 2000 it will be at 9.12 percent, according to data from the National Consumer Price Index.
This significant increase is being reflected in food, and other products in sales in the country, such as in the list of school supplies, after he returned to the classrooms of more than 23 million students.
In that sense, This scenario has made this return to school the most complicated in terms of the economy in the last 25 years, where the costs of school supplies became more expensive by 10 and up to 30 percent in the country, depending on the area.
According to National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI)basic school supplies became up to 30 percent more expensive in the first half of July 2022, compared to the same date in 2021. What, according to the institute, is the biggest price increase since the second half of March 1997.
The INEGI mentioned that notebooks and folders are among the products that have become more expensive, because until the month of July they had an annual inflation of 13.97 percent. While pens and pencils show a higher price increase, with a rate of 9.07 percent, a level not seen since February 2017.
For its part, the National Alliance of Small Businesses (ANPEC), reported that the cost of school supplies increased twenty percent in the Central zone, 30 percent in the North zone and ten percent in the South zone.
Given this, the ANPEC highlights that supplying the supplies and uniforms may involve a minimum expense this year of three thousand 500 Mexican pesos, in the north of the country. For its part, in the downtown area the total cost can be three thousand 300 pesos.
Where, for example, to buy said list in the Central zone of the country, which includes states such as Jalisco, It costs 492.15 Mexican pesos, but to that is added the expense of the uniforms, which are 1,302 pesos, as well as 863.70 for the shoes and other 661 for items such as the backpack and the lunch box.
“Last year, lists of school supplies were not required and the use of uniforms was not mandatory, since the return to classes in person was after the school calendar and the return of the students was staggered,” said Cuahtémoc Rivera. , president of the (ANPEC).
Other estimates, such as that of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco-Servytur) of the City, highlighted that it anticipates that these sales for the return to classes in the 2022-2023 school year reach four billion pesosbelow the sales registered in 2019, which were estimated at almost five billion pesos.
All this panorama is recorded, despite the fact that the Government of Mexico has announced several measures to control inflation, but the prices of products continue to put the personal finances of Mexicans in trouble.
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